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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Anne believes this when someone else is enduring a bad situation but believes it is punishment for ___________________ when it happens to her.
(a) her bad character
(b) her drug habit
(c) her alcohol abuse
(d) her abortion

2. What phrase is used by people in Anne's church to anyone embarking on a trip?
(a) Safe journey.
(b) Take care.
(c) Traveling mercies.
(d) Send us a card.

3. Why is Sam acting so morose?
(a) He is getting a cold.
(b) He grieves for Pammy.
(c) He is homesick.
(d) He misses his father.

4. Who does Anne befriend when she is sixteen?
(a) Billie
(b) Bee
(c) Barbara
(d) Betsy

5. What does Anne think when her plane finally levels out after hours of delay, bomb inspections, and turbulence?
(a) She is never flying that airline again.
(b) She just wants to get home.
(c) She has been part of another miracle.
(d) She is never coming to St. Louis again.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Anne's father at the age of 54?

2. On what day does Anne make Sam skip cartoons before school as a sign of respect for the dead?

3. What does Sam act like each day Anne returns to pick Sam up?

4. To what does Anne compare attacking a child?

5. What do Mary's dimes symbolize for Anne?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Anne like her activist father?

2. Anne's friend, Pammy, learns that she can adopt a baby at the same time that she learns she is dying from cancer. How does Pammy think about her new daughter during this time?

3. When Anne and Sam are at Ixtapa for vacation, they are both still mourning the death of Anne's friend, Pammy. What happens to alter Anne's perspective a little?

4. How does Anne change her perspective about Sam's classmate's mother?

5. How does Anne describe her church family?

6. What decision-making process does Anne use when determining whether or not she should let Sam go paragliding?

7. What does Anne consider to be the first miracle she witnesses?

8. One day Anne sits next to a man on a plane who notes the cross on a chain around Anne's neck and asks if she is a born-again Christian? How does Anne respond?

9. How does Anne know that Sam has forgiven her for the cartoon episode of that Ash Wednesday morning?

10. What is the reason that Anne makes Sam go to church?

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